I think one of the reasons I haven’t gotten involved in drugs, sex or alcohol and I ended up pursuing only what I thought was "pure", good, "holy" and "acceptable" in the eyes of society is that I've always been free - meaning that, since the age of sixteen, I didn't have any authority figures (including parents) in my life to tell me what to do (other than the authorities that I've chosen to have in my life, such as pastors, teachers, bosses, etc). Even then, they didn't really tell me what to do. On the other hand, I've friends who grew up under the tyranny of strict parents - and they ended up indulging in all sorts of pleasure (sex, alcohol, drugs, etc). The prohibition that their parents have put on them has generated the desire to do what they were told to NOT do. "For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Interesting. I am 62 years old, and while still working a busy job, this year I have made a commitment to taking evening jazz guitar group/ ensemble classes, to pursue my dream job. What I have learnt is becoming a musician involves alot of hard work and practice. Because I accept this I am probably doing better than lots of students but the reality is very different from my dream life. Welcome your feedback!
i'd say anxiety is the dizziness of stiffled freedom, the shaking that comes with the knowledge that you could be doing something but can't. if you want to stop wasting your life, resist it being wasted. that is to say, there are many things we could and should do but can't due to social and economic forces so, if we are to liberate ourselves, we need to overcome and replace capitalism which is a drain on so much human energy.
To choose to do anything even something you deeply aspired to, is to commit yourself at the exclusion of all other opportunities. This is more fundamental than even social constraints, which limit your possibilities both realized and left behind, and thus can often grant a greater clarity, even if out of a regretful socioeconomic dynamic.
source? From Kierk I havo only Eithe Or on paper in much better Polish translation by Iwaszkiewicz. I am preciselly in this situation, doing nothing, being poor but not stupid... lonely and not able to commit so I can imagine I would do it perfectly. I know, looking on other people, that I had no upbringing that allows me to do something perfectly, beautiffuly... Kierkegard should have taken that into consideration. I know girls, that started to draw, yoga, dance, sew and they are doing it with grace. I can not even make a good black tea from a bag :( I am 41 never had a proper social life, I am calm and helpfull but this can go only that far. I am at the start of a process of changing everything, I need to deal with cooking problem, with style of clothes and hairs, with money, with excercise and streaching. Life makes order, order do not make life... Money in the Rick Roderick style of observation is the prime factor that limits me from being meditative and sure of my future. I love kierkegard from time to time but all those observations are in modern days for endowed individuals not for working class, even working class member sitting in books and classical music :( When you are poor no amount of pushups will take you from life at the bottom...
@@julianphilosophy I am not looking for self help text ;) I am watching philosophy lectures on yt for pleasure so I know what you are trying to say ;) DO not worry ;) Thank you for your energy and passion.
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closest we'll ever get lol
been crushing for years and dying to see him grow a beard
Broooo that ending??!! Come on man!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Such a facility you have to communicate deep information. Congratulations Julian, I’ll stay tuned
Good one for new year resolution
appreciate your videos, man. you're a good communicator/teacher!
I think one of the reasons I haven’t gotten involved in drugs, sex or alcohol and I ended up pursuing only what I thought was "pure", good, "holy" and "acceptable" in the eyes of society is that I've always been free - meaning that, since the age of sixteen, I didn't have any authority figures (including parents) in my life to tell me what to do (other than the authorities that I've chosen to have in my life, such as pastors, teachers, bosses, etc). Even then, they didn't really tell me what to do.
On the other hand, I've friends who grew up under the tyranny of strict parents - and they ended up indulging in all sorts of pleasure (sex, alcohol, drugs, etc).
The prohibition that their parents have put on them has generated the desire to do what they were told to NOT do.
"For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Interesting. I am 62 years old, and while still working a busy job, this year I have made a commitment to taking evening jazz guitar group/ ensemble classes, to pursue my dream job. What I have learnt is becoming a musician involves alot of hard work and practice. Because I accept this I am probably doing better than lots of students but the reality is very different from my dream life. Welcome your feedback!
Experience of time: anxiety.
Experience of duration: purpose.
This hits.
Thank you Julian! I really needed this video now
This kinda reminds me of the fig tree allegory in the bell jar
That book broke me
The opening kind of reminded me of the character Lady Catherine from Pride & Prejudice
Julian, thank you :)
i'd say anxiety is the dizziness of stiffled freedom, the shaking that comes with the knowledge that you could be doing something but can't. if you want to stop wasting your life, resist it being wasted. that is to say, there are many things we could and should do but can't due to social and economic forces so, if we are to liberate ourselves, we need to overcome and replace capitalism which is a drain on so much human energy.
To choose to do anything even something you deeply aspired to, is to commit yourself at the exclusion of all other opportunities. This is more fundamental than even social constraints, which limit your possibilities both realized and left behind, and thus can often grant a greater clarity, even if out of a regretful socioeconomic dynamic.
source? From Kierk I havo only Eithe Or on paper in much better Polish translation by Iwaszkiewicz. I am preciselly in this situation, doing nothing, being poor but not stupid... lonely and not able to commit so I can imagine I would do it perfectly. I know, looking on other people, that I had no upbringing that allows me to do something perfectly, beautiffuly... Kierkegard should have taken that into consideration. I know girls, that started to draw, yoga, dance, sew and they are doing it with grace. I can not even make a good black tea from a bag :(
I am 41 never had a proper social life, I am calm and helpfull but this can go only that far. I am at the start of a process of changing everything, I need to deal with cooking problem, with style of clothes and hairs, with money, with excercise and streaching. Life makes order, order do not make life... Money in the Rick Roderick style of observation is the prime factor that limits me from being meditative and sure of my future. I love kierkegard from time to time but all those observations are in modern days for endowed individuals not for working class, even working class member sitting in books and classical music :( When you are poor no amount of pushups will take you from life at the bottom...
Source is “the concept of anxiety” although please note it’s less a self help text and more of a philosophical treatise
@@julianphilosophy I am not looking for self help text ;) I am watching philosophy lectures on yt for pleasure so I know what you are trying to say ;) DO not worry ;) Thank you for your energy and passion.
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do you have discord? sammi?
You are not close enough to the camera! I can barely see you.
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